“Paperman” Director John Kahrs Joins Paramount to Direct “Shedd”
John Kahrs, who left Disney abruptly after winning the Oscar for “Paperman,” has landed at Paramount’s new animation group.
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British Animation Awards 2014 Finalists Announced
The biennial British Animation Awards have announced their slate of nominees for 2014.
Inspiration From Everywhere All At Once: Expanding Educational Experience At SVA
SVA students and alumni discuss extracurricular activities that helped to enrich their educational experience at the school.
“The Laughing Policeman” by Marcus Armitage
A film of life on the planks and the grit in between.
Mr. Magoo Theatrical Shorts Coming to DVD in April
Shout! Factory has set a release date for its long awaited DVD set Mr. Magoo Theatrical Collection: The Theatrical Collection 1949-1959.
Pixar Makes Painterly CG: New Research Could Change The Look of Their Films
Last summer at SIGGRAPH, Pixar presented a paper offering some clues about one of the major new directions that CG feature animation is headed. The paper, “Stylizing Animation By Example,” explored how filmmakers could achieve more expressive rendering styles that disregard the perfect boundaries of computer graphics rendering and mimic traditional painting techniques.
Things That Didn’t Need to Be CG: Rosie the Robot [UPDATED]
A new series of Brazilian ads for Brilux cleaning supplies resurrects Hanna-Barbera’s Rosie the Robot in CG. The character is removed from her futuristic context on “The Jetsons” and dropped into a contemporary scene of Brazilian upper class domesticity.
Artist of the Day: Daniel Stone
Daniel Stone is an artist who works in animation and creates drawings and comics as personal work.
Oscar-Nominated Short “Feral” Is Available Online
Filmmaker Daniel Sousa has made his short film “Feral,” one of this year’s five Academy Award nominees, available on Vimeo on Demand.
10 Animated Sexploitation Features from the Sixties and Seventies (NSFW)
For a brief decade-long period in animation history, between the late-1960s and late-1970s, feature animation filmmakers cast aside their inhibitions and created films that aimed to titillate and shock audiences with the novelty of sexual cartoon imagery.
Two Indie Walt Disney Biopics Due in 2014
Did Tom Hanks’ performance as Walt Disney in Saving Mr. Banks wet your whistle for another depiction of Mr. Disney on the big screen? Then 2014 just might be your year, because two independent biopics are scheduled to be released later this year.
“Frozen” Producer Peter Del Vecho Wins PGA Award
“Frozen” notched another win tonight on the awards circuit: Peter Del Vecho won the Producers Guild Award for Oustanding Producer of an Animated Theatrical Motion Picture.
Big Openings for “Nut Job” and “Boonie Bears” Prove That Audiences Just Don’t Care
It was a great weekend for subpar family CG films starring animals. Peter Lepeniotis’ “The Nut Job,” the first animated film released by Open Road Films, a new distribution company launched by AMC Theatres and Regal Entertainment Group, opened in third place with a robust $20.6 million.
Damien Hirst Meets Mickey Mouse
Mickey Mouse and Damien Hirst are strange bedfellows. Hirst (b. 1965) is a multidisciplinary artist foremost in the group dubbed Young British Artists (YBAs). He burst onto the scene in the 1980s, a very promising maker of paintings, sculptures, and more. He has become extraordinarily successful, which does not necessarily mean that his promise has been fulfilled.
“Pari Pari Pa-ri” by Takashi Ohashi
A music video for Megu & Patron’s “Pari Pari Pa-ri” directed by Takashi Ohashi.
Rare Animation Books and Interviews on Archive.org
Don’t miss this rare find on Archive.org: A complete PDF copy of John Halas and Roger Manvell’s book “Design in Motion” (1962).
Where Cartoon Brew Readers Are From: 2013 Edition
Find out which studios, schools, and countries visited Cartoon Brew most frequently last year.
“Penismouse” by Kristof Babaski (NSFW)
An extroverted mouse wants to play. “Myszochujek ” (“Penismouse”), a playful film about control, was made in 1957 by Polish director, Kristof Babaski. The Polish Film Club have restored it and released it in 2014 in HD.
Artist of the Day: Vince McKelvie
Vince McKelvie creates experimental computer generated animation and publishes his work as animated GIF loops, hardware accelerated interactive animation, and rendered real-time interactive animation, all presented within a web browser.
“Despicable Me 3” and “How the Grinch Stole Christmas” Set for 2017
Universal Pictures recently announced release dates for three upcoming films from “Despicable Me” producer Illumination Entertainment.
“Waiter” by Ryoji Yamada
Waiter finished work, goes out and gets drunk.
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